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Support for this project was provided by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, with assistance from the National Science Foundation under sponsor award number SES-0112521; the Department of Homeland Security, with assistance from the National Science Foundation under sponsor award number SES-0411897; the National Center for Education Statistics, with assistance from the National Science Foundation under sponsor award number SBR-0453930; and the National Science Foundation under sponsor award numbers SRS-0632055 and IIS-0441216. Additional funding was provided by the Presidents’ Circle Communications Initiative of the National Academies.

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Protecting individual privacy in the struggle against terrorists : a framework for program assessment.